About this class

Course Description

This class encompasses topics associated with a multidimensional view of health, including personality, stress management, communicable and non-communicable disease, nutrition, health-related fitness, human sexuality and multicultural issues applied to the above topics. Course content is structured around, presented through and conducted within the interactive, distance learning environment.

Instructor for HEA 150: TRISH ROOT

CONTACTING THE TEACHER

Course Objectives

By the end of the course the student will:

1. Identify and evaluate lifestyle behaviors which contribute to both poor and excellent states of health during on-line small group discussion, large group interaction, and electronic mail communication.

2. Identify and utilize, through on-line instruction and individualized practice, several techniques for stress management.

3. Identify signs associated with eating disorders and to distinguish safe from unsafe weight control measures by visiting both respectable and disreputable Internet sites and engaging in small and large group discussions.

4. Identify specific risk factors, signs, and symptoms associated with both communicable and incommunicable disease, through both course text reading as well as multi-website inspection.

5. Compare on-line journals or sites reviews based on respected scientific research as well as those based upon personal opinion, poor research methods and commercialism.

6. Obtain passing grades on all written assignments, internet "search and reports", participatory activities, and the written quiz and exam.

7. Identify various contraceptive methods, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as their effectiveness levels for pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention.

NSCC General Education Outcomes Met by Course: (list each outcome)

Outcome #1: Think critically in reading and writing.

Outcome #4: Assess, evaluate, and apply information from a variety of sources and a

Outcome #5: Apply computer competency appropriate to general education and occupational goals.

Outcome #6: Work and communicate effectively in groups.

Outcome #7: Deal constructively with information, ideas, and emotions associated with such issues of diversity and conflict as culture, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and abilities.

Outcome #10: Identify and understand fundamental concepts of the physical and life sciences and the effects that the uses of these concepts and resulting technologies have on the individual, on society and on the biosphere.

Required Texts:

Living Well: Health in Your Hands. Byer, Curtis O. and Louis W. Shainberg. HarperCollins College Publishers. 2nd edition. 1995.

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Health and Society. Daniel, Eileen L. Dushkin Publishing Group/Brown & Benchmark Publishers. 2nd edition. 1996.

Evaluation

Points

Quiz (1) 35

Final exam 65

Issue discussions (5) 50

Small group discussions (5) 50

Weekly assignments (10) 100

Chapter reviews (5) 50

Internet search and reports (10-15) 50-75

Quiz

There will be an on-line quiz at midterm. Details will be announced by the third week of class.

Final Exam

An in-class final exam will be held on --TO BE ANNOUNCED --.   Final exam will be held in a different room. All students will receive this new room information during the quarter as soon as it is available. The final is cumulative.

Students will NOT be allowed to make up or reschedule the final exam unless an emergency develops or the instructor has been notified prior to the test.

Discussions

Issues read in Taking Sides will be discussed with one or two other students in assigned small groups. Students will also write a summary of each issue and submit this summary to instructor by Friday of that week. Both the summary and student's out-of-class discussion will contribute to the participation grade. During the weeks that issues are not discussed, there will be other small group discussion assignments, in which the group members will report highlights of the discussions. Discussions are EXTREMELY important in this class--they improve our social, emotional, and intellectual wellness, and can even get us thinking more about our own philosophies, thereby stimulating spiritual wellness and, hopefully, physical wellness.

Assignments

Ten (10) assignments are described each week at the website. They are to be completed by the dates as instructed. Assignments received late will be subject to a 10% per day penalty. Assignments can be turned in via e-mail (preferred) or hard copy to instructor's office in the PE/Wellness Center.

Please see the Course Schedule page for a list of reading assignments in the texts.

The student is responsible for all that has
transpired in class